64-bit Vista and Meter-cable drivers/software?

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Permalink Reply by tmana on May 5, 2009 at 3:17pm

Did some more poking around. One Touch's site says their software supports 32-bit Windows but not 64-bit. No info from the Accu-Chek site. Inquired at Wavesense/Agamatrix; currently only 32-bit Windows is supported (64-bit-compatible software in development, no release date set).
Looks like I'm not going to be able to be completely migrated until some manufacturer gets on the ball and the appropriate hardware and software out to us users. (Insert long string of expletives.)

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Permalink Reply by Janet Huyser on August 14, 2009 at 1:24pm

Got my most recent laptop two years ago -- I work with some supergeeks and they all advised me to reinstall at 32 bit level -- that 64 bit Vista wasn't working with anything -- including Microsoft products -- am not enough of an expert at this to say anything more than am happy i saved all my data and reinstalled the 32-bit version. Might wait for Windos 7 to come out - same super geek friends are on both alpha and beta testing teams and they tall me I will be pleased with this new operating system.

And if you go through all that and then need to get revised software for Windows 7, you might wish you had waited.

So how many computer technicians does it take to change a lightbulb? None -- they change the standard to "dark" and upgrade all their users!

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on June 2, 2009 at 2:01am

Hi !

Problem is with drivers. I have/had drivers which worked on XP/64, but they stopped working (One Touch) (I think that problems started after I installed certain SP)... Don't ask me how.. I have up on everything and I continued development over on linux platform (I am developer developing diabetes software called GGC).

Maybe you should find 3rd party 64 bit drivers. They might work..After I installed XP x64, I searched for drivers for more than 6 months (big things weren't problem, but small were)...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by Todd T. on June 2, 2009 at 10:13pm

Really ticked me off after I installed Vista-64 and One-Touch drivers did not work. Have any of you tried it on Windows 7 RC? I may try it this week end to see if it works, I think I installed the 64-bit version.

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Permalink Reply by AndyRozman on June 3, 2009 at 2:41am

He he... I am keeping away from any MS OS that hasn't been on market for a least 1 year... I am still using Windows XP and it will stay that way for next few years... Vista is not good enough for me... ok it looks nice and hace a bunch of nifty features, but mostly it still has problems... My sister uses it since she got it with new computer, so I am having enough headaches from her computer...

Andy

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Permalink Reply by tmana on June 3, 2009 at 4:24pm

I downloaded a third-party hardware driver for the OneTouch but haven't installed it yet. Haven't put up W7 yet, need to finish migrating my must-have stuff to Vista-64 before I can free up enough system to try W7 on any system...

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Permalink Reply by Robert Hearn on September 29, 2009 at 6:19pm

So - almost four months later, have you installed the third-party driver yet, and did it work? I'm running Vista64, just got an UltraSmart a couple weeks ago, and was wondering if you'd had any luck.

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Permalink Reply by tmana on September 30, 2009 at 8:42am

Yes -- and it worked fine, straight-off. (I finally also got the 64-bit driver for my Freestyle meters up and running.)

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Permalink Reply by John on June 18, 2009 at 9:15am

If Freestyle is using a Prolific USB adapter cable.. install the cable, then let windows update handle it...
Know its not the *ideal* but Prolific isnt letting people download the cable driver for vista directly... had to do something similar to get a Lifescan meter to work with Vista

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Permalink Reply by tmana on June 19, 2009 at 12:19pm

It appears to be vendor-specific, as are most of these. I do have a link for another USB cable that is compatible with the Freestyle monitors, not sure if it will work with 64-bit Vista. The Abbott cable requires the disc that came with the Abbott cable (this is how I found it was incompatible in the first place). I just tried to install the drivers for the Wavesense cable and got a similar result. I've not found any third-party Vista-64 drivers for either of those. I just installed a third-party 64-bit driver for the OneTouch (wish I could remember who directed me to it or where I found it!) and the OneTouch software. It has successfully imported the readings on the UltraSmart that is my favorite of the OneTouch meters.

I just wish Abbott and Wavesense would get on the ball to come up with 64-bit drivers for their cables/meters.

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Permalink Reply by John on June 19, 2009 at 1:38pm

It may be vendor specific for the actual data.. but usually the cable is a smart cable that has a USB to serial converter chip in it (except in the case of the wavesense which is (im guessing) a pullup resistor on one of the USB pins... (Sony did this with some of their firewire cables and you had to use a Sony cable with their camcorders)...

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Permalink Reply by tmana on June 19, 2009 at 2:38pm

All of them, with no meter attached, come up searching for the vendor-specific drivers -- by vendor name.

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